Friday, December 30, 2011

I am absolutely addicted to making these pillowcases. They are so much fun and super easy.

Here's how I made them.. I used premium muslin from Joann's. It was 108'' wide and about 11.99 a yard. I'll have to say it is worth every penny. The muslin washes up soft and wrinkly just like vintage linens. My mom was convinced I found old pillowcases to embroider on. I can get two pillowcases per yard. A few of the designs came from this book. I took from a few vintage pillowcases to come up with the zinnia design and for the

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My friend and I made these super fun and easy mugs for all of our park ladies. We scoped out our local thrift stores for plain white mugs and had to search high and low for the special black pen. I saw the monogrammed idea on soulemama's blog. She had a link to this blog for the tutorial here. For the mustaches I used the same technique.. I printed out mustaches that

Thursday, November 24, 2011

history: about three and a half years ago my sister and I decided to each make a stacked coin quilt during the summer. During the cutting out process the girls looked through all of my scraps and put aside fabrics they liked. So because my quilt was coming along smoothly I decided to pre-cut coins for a quilt for each of them. Well we accomplished our goal that summer. We finished the tops to our (king sized) quilts but we were so burnt from sewing the stacked coins the girls fabric went into deep hibernation. A move and three quilts later I finally finished this cutie. I love knowing that each fabric she choose was special to her. The fabrics I used for the back also tell a tale of my sweet Mae. Ducks, chickens and puppies are all for her. Now just to start/finish her sister's quilt.

Hopefully sooner than later.

finished quilt

72x90... cotton batting

side note: this was my first quilt of this size that I machine quilted!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Last year I decided to rid our lives of wrapping paper waste. I saw the idea to make reusable gift bags on soulemama's blog and loved it. They are so simple and fast to make. I had intended to use them only for the holidays, but I found that I'm using them for all of my gift giving.